August 18, 2011

BLADE RUNNER: Ridley Scott Ready to Revisit That World

According to Deadline, director Ridley Scott is pretty much locked in to directing and producing a new chapter set in the world of his 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner. Writes Mike Fleming, "I’m not getting a clear sense at this point whether Scott intends to do a sequel or a prequel to the 1982 film that was loosely based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Also unclear is whether they start fresh or reach out to Harrison Ford, who starred [in the film] that took place in dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, in which organic superhuman robots called replicants escaped and are hiding somewhere on earth. Ford played Richard Deckard, a burnt out blade runner assigned to hunt them down. His tired life gets altered when he himself falls for one of the replicants and struggles to keep her from being destroyed... This is just the first step and the project will have to be written and it will likely evolve during that process." For more, click HERE.